Officers of the
Illinois Municipal League
PRESIDENT
VIRGIL F. LAFFERTY, Mayor,
Champaign
FIRST VICE PRESIDENT
J. RUSSEL CHRISTIANSON, Village President,
Oak Park
SERGEANT-AT-ARMS
WILLIAM H. WINTERHOFF, Supervisor, Thorton Township
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
L. A. SARGENT
VICE PRESIDENTS
ALTON
Mayor P. W. Day
BELLEVILLE
Mayor Jerome J. Munie
BELVIDERE
Mayor Loster Cunningham
BLOOMINGTON
Mayor Bob McGraw
BROADVIEW
Village President Merritt Braga
BROOKFIELD
Village President Fred Kuehn
CAIRO
Mayor Paul Baur
CALUMET CITY
Mayor Stanley Bejger
CENTRALIA
Mayor H. B. Blanchard
CHICAGO
Mayor Richard J. Daley
CLINTON
Commissioner C. E. Corrington
DECATUR
Mayor Clarence A. Sablotny
DE KALB
Mayor Clayton Pooler
DOWNERS GROVE
Mayor B. H. Groves
EAST ST. LOUIS
Mayor Alvin Fields
EVANSTON
Mayor John Kimbark
FREEPORT
Mayor Glen Kunkle
GALESBURG
Mayor William H. Small
HILLSIDE
Village President Roman J. Binder
JACKSONVILLE
Mayor Robert DuBois
JOLIET
Mayor James T. Hennessy
KANKAKEE
Mayor Edward Madison
LA SALLE
Mayor B. D. Bruno
MATTOON
Mayor Morgan F. Phipps
MELROSE PARK
Village President Andy Frenzel
MOLINE
Mayor Arnold Smith
MONMOUTH
Mayor Donovan Vance
MUNDELEIN
Village President John J. Noel
PARIS
Mayor T. J. Trogdon, Jr.
PEORIA
Mayor Eugene Leiter
PINCKNEYVILLE
Mayor Wm. J. Cunningham
RIVERSIDE
Village President William Hajeck
ROCKFORD
Mayor Benjamin T. Schleicher
SPRINGFIELD
Mayor Nelson O. Howarth
TAYLORVILLE
Mayor Thomas Sweeney
WAUKEGAN
Mayor Robert Sabonjian
PAST PRESIDENTS
A. E. Turngren, Mayor, Harvey
Charles Wellner, Mayor, Naperville
A.L. SARGENT--Editor
DOROTHY COLEMAN NICKELSON--Assistant Editor
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From the
DIRECTOR'S
DESK . . . .
CITY HALL GOSSIP
Around the State
Representatives of Springfield, Bloomington, Decatur and Effingham recently met and drafted a model ordinance to control and regulate the use of marginal land around municipal lakes and the use of water for purposes other than water supply . . . The City of Chicago recently celebrated its 121st birthday anniversary . . . Mayor Ralph Richmond of St. Charles has accepted in the name of the city a gift of $100,000 to be used for any item of civic progress the city officials deem necessary. The money was given to the city by local philanthropist Col. E. J. Baker . . . Cook County's new incorporation is Buffalo Grove . . . Murphysboro has received a $184,000 federal grant for their sewer program . . . Mayor Benjamin T. Schleicher of Rockford has been named to the United States Conference of Mayors Committee on natural gas legislation . . . Peru's six-month moratorium of parking meters has ended and the City Council has voted to restore the meters to their posts . . . The City of Mt. Sterling recently polled its water users on the question of fluoridation of the water supply. Of 890 water customers 606 returned the questionnaire, of those answering 397 were opposed to fluoridation while 309 favored it ... Named as one of the "Ten Young Women of the Year" is the daughter of Village Clerk Michael Laraia of Melrose Park. The young lady is known professionally on Broadway as Carol Lawrence. She is currently appearing as a star of the Broadway hit "West Side Story."
Appointments and Resignations
Robert H. Oldland, former manager of Santa Maria, California, has been appointed City Manager of Champaign . . . Race N. Wilt, former assistant city engineer at Wilmette, has been appointed city manager at Coronado, California . . . Lee Morse has been elected to the city commission at Harris-burg . . . Ernest Erickson has become Grayslake's first Village Superintendent, as such he will be responsible for police, streets, sewers and water services . . . Alderman Frank D. Sperry of Galva has resigned . . . Robert L. Hegel has been appointed City Manager at Villa Park . . . Hugh T. Henry, former manager at Lombard and assistant manager at Glencoe, has been named City Manager of Claremore, Oklahoma . . . Lawrence Harry has been appointed to fill the unexpired term of the late E. C. Helton, as trustee at Ogden . . . Dan Hanson, traffic engineer at Peoria, has resigned to accept the post of traffic engineer of St. Louis County.
Bond Issues
Lockport, a $425,000 general obligation bond issue for a sewage disposal plant was approved at referendum by a vote of 661 to 70 ... Dolton, $510,000 combination bond issue for a fire station and water improvements have been approved . . . East Moline voters have rejected a proposed bond issue of $175,000 to construct a new city hall. The vote was 541 opposed to 433 in favor of the issue.
Deaths
J. E. McMackin of Salem, a former member of the General Assembly and former Mayor . . . James K. Bamett, chief of police at Clinton . . . Mrs. Katherine Shade, the mother of former Pekin Mayor and now State Representative Norman J. Shade.
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